Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.7 times smaller than Florida.
Florida is approximately 139,670 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 36.59% the size of Florida. Meanwhile, the population of Florida is ~18.8 million people (13.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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